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Object Number 56-57-50/9856
Display Title Skin breech clout
Descriptions
Inventory Description Leather loincloth, leather ties, blue glass bead decoration.
Classification
  • Underwear
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bushmen
  • G//ana
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Southwest: Bechuanaland; Chukudu, near
Dimensions Overall: 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm (27 9/16 x 19 11/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 56-57-50/9856
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum Southwest Africa Expedition

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Breechcloth
Africa
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Outerwear
Africa
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Outerwear
British Columbia
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Breechcloth
British Columbia
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Loincloth
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Eastern Lepanto
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Breechcloth
British Columbia
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Outerwear
British Columbia
Breechcloth - leather with bead trim (/ona)
58-43-50/10309 Breechcloth - leather with bead trim (/ona)
Underwear
Namibia
Botswana
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39-17-70/1139 Man's bark cloth breech clout
Bark cloth
Sanke Doek
Man's breech clout, buckskin. Wider at front than back.
15-36-10/86559 Man's breech clout, buckskin. Wider at front than back.
Breechcloth
British Columbia
Breech clout
08-36-70/74445 Breech clout
Woven
Benguet Province
Lepanto
Igorot
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Fiber
Site 8